Star Temple Baptist Church
Star Temple Baptist Church is a church at 5611 Jefferson Island Rd in New Iberia, LA 70560-9244. It is one of 67 churches in New Iberia.
5611 Jefferson Island Rd, New Iberia, LA, 70560-9244Phone: (337) 365-7600 · Website: http://www.ww25.templebaptist.co
Star Temple Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,378 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Louisiana — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Star Temple Baptist Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 56.5% (38.7–74.3%)
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 38.1% (24.5–51.7%)
- Food Insecurity: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.9%
- Diabetes: 19.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.0%
- Obesity: 44.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
- Depression: 28.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Star Temple Baptist Church
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 2.2 mi away
- New Iberia Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church — 3.6 mi away
- Word-Hope World Outreach Church — 4 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 4 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Saint Marcellus Catholic Church — 4.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 4.5 mi away
- Anderson Street Church of Christ — 4.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Olive Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Lighthouse Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Mount Olive Baptist Church Number 2 — 4.9 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 5 mi away
- Solid Rock Baptist Church — 5.2 mi away
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